The way I was thinking of tackling this was by using an openSUSE liveCD. That way I have a known zypper/libzypp stack and point it to the 'foreign' OS using zypper -R (chroot). Also opens a few doors such as maybe converting to btrfs and snapshotting in a sane and safe way to rollback if the 'upgrade' goes horribly wrong.

Because openSUSE/SLE has a lot to offer which CentOS/RHEL do not. Quick examples - YaST, btrfs as a recommended filesystem for root, a huge library of packages in OBS and the platform to build your own, and a package manager that does RPM's 'right'. But right now, the only options for someone wanting to try jumping from one to the other is painful and probably involving reinstallation and lots of reconfiguration.. I want to see if we can make that easier - With zypper we can seamlessly jump not only from one version of our distribution to another (eg 12.3 to 13.1) but also from one 'type' of distribution to another (eg. regular openSUSE to rolling openSUSE Factory).. why shouldn't we also be able to jump from an entirely different distribution to openSUSE?

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